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  3. The trend toward smaller families may not be as modern as we think. Although

The trend toward smaller families may not be as modern as we think. Although

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问题     The trend toward smaller families may not be as modern as we think. Although women gatherers had four or five children, only two【B1】______survived childhood — the number found in the【B2】______American family today. Even our style of【B3】______children is starting to parallel hunting gathering communities, in which girls and boys are permitted to play together from a young age, and consequently experiment at sex earlier and engage in【B4】______marriages. Clearly, we’ve moved away from the agricultural custom of arranged marriages and insulating girls at home to【B5】______their virginity.
    Moreover, the home is no longer the "place of production", as it was in farm days. We don’t make our soap, grow our vegetables and kill chickens for the dinner table. Instead, we hunt and gather in the grocery store and return to our "home base" to consume the food we have collected. No wonder we are so in love with fast food. It probably goes back to an eating strategy our primate relatives【B6】______over 50 million years ago.
    There’s no mistaking the【B7】______: Humans are once again on the【B8】______. 【B9】______. 【B10】______. By equality, I mean a more equitable division of power — not that our roles will converge. Alike men and women have never been and never will be.【B11】______ [br] 【B6】
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解析 分析句子结构可知，空所在句our primate…ago是省略了引导词的定语从句，该句缺少谓语动词，根据时间50 million years ago可知，本空应填一过去式形式的动词。所填词与strategy构成动宾搭配，故很可能是表示“采取”或“采用”等含义。primate relatives意指与人类相似的灵长类哺乳动物。
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